Advocate Men (January 1989), Part Two

As the AIDS epidemic swept throughout the community during the 1980s, multiple homoerotic publications tirelessly worked to encourage the practice of safe sex. While some, like the articles in Torso’s February 1986 issue, used scientific information in a highly straightforward approach, others, like Lon Naughton’s short story “Pretty in Hot Pink” contained in this January 1989 issue of Advocate Men (which has been broken into two part), strived to eroticize condoms to promote their use. Within the tale, the narrator, a fraternity pledge, not only supplies his brothers with condoms from his job at Planned Parenthood but praises how the penis of his big brother looks inside the pink latex. Included in the second half (see the first half here) are spreads of models Ricky Bell and Brad Philips, the military-themed short story “The Little Colonel” and the police-themed short story “The Rescue,” and advice for senior homosexuals on loneliness.

Advocate Men (January 1989), Part One

As the AIDS epidemic swept throughout the community during the 1980s, multiple homoerotic publications tirelessly worked to encourage the practice of safe sex. While some, like the articles in Torso’s February 1986 issue, used scientific information in a highly straightforward approach, others, like Lon Naughton’s short story “Pretty in Hot Pink” contained in this January 1989 issue of Advocate Men (which has been broken into two part), strived to eroticize condoms to promote their use. Within the tale, the narrator, a fraternity pledge, not only supplies his brothers with condoms from his job at Planned Parenthood but praises how the penis of his big brother looks inside the pink latex. Also included in the first half are spreads of models Jack Lofton, Francois, and Sebastian, a Poppers comic and Donelan cartoon, and reader-submitted fantasies. 

Skinflicks (January 1989), Part Two

Beginning in the early 1980s and lasting until the late 1990s, Skinflicks, akin to Adam Gay Video and Manshots, joined the ranks of homoerotic publications which cataloged the industry’s latest releases in film and print, offering readers an inside glimpse with behind-the-scenes exposés and model interviews. In the second half (see the first half here) of this January 1989 issue (which has been broken into two parts), photospreads of Peter Ashley and Tony Lamas are accompanied by reviews of the films Bullet Gold and The Young Cadets.